Caps Today, 2/19/13

Tomas Kundratek skated 23:25 in Sunday’s 2-1 loss to
the New York Rangers, the second-highest ice-time total on the Capitals and
Kundratek’s career-high ice time figure.

Kundratek, acquired from the Rangers in exchange for
Francois Bouchard in Nov. 2011, has recorded four assists in his last six games
and currently ranks tied for fifth in points among NHL rookie defensemen. The
Czech Republic-native has seen his average ice time per game rise from 12:18 in
six games during January to 15:00 in his eight games played in February.

The 6’2”, 200-pound blueliner currently ranks among
the top-16 rookie defensemen in both shorthanded ice time per game (1:01) and
power-play ice time per game (:38). At his time of recall to Washington,
Kundratek led Hershey in goals and ranked third in points while ranking third
in the AHL in goals by a defenseman.